Crosswind landings (Read 1,081 times)

Amazing Steve. She can walk like a crab! I visited the Boeing plant and saw number one before she was finished.

Thanks,
Pat P.
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this is the bird I'm working on here at the bomber factory...I'm in the Electromagnetic Effects group working in the certification part of it......in otherwords...we bless the whole plane for lightning and P static effects of the airplane during a lightning strike event....really interesting work..
so far the plane is flying as expected....sure is interesting to watch the test program progress....what's really wierd right now is that the Rolls engines are all off the pylons on every plane on the ramp....a Rolls Trent engine blew up on the test stand at 115% destroying the test stand...so...all engines are being torn down and rebuilt with new parts...or new engines are being built and we're waiting for them to show up....if we can just get ONE out the door ..that would be nice...

Steve

I can testify to the winds in Keflavik having spent eight years there. Add in snow and ice and you have a really challenging airfield. Our Air Force, Navy and NATO pilots and the Icelandair pilots dealt with these conditions on a daily basis. As Fleegle said, "Flying without wings is not easy."

Did y'all notice Randy Neville in the video? The Chief Test Pilot? He's a former 318th Six Driver! (Yea Gene, he's got his stuff together!)

Info on him here...

www.mcchordairmuseum.org/REV%20B%20OUR%20HISTORY%20MT%20ST%20HELENS%20A%20DRAGONS%20VIEW.htm

As far as the "tail" on the tail of the aircraft, it's a static pressure trailing cone. Its purpose is to measure the static (i.e., not influenced by the aircraft itself) air pressure where the aircraft is at that moment. Knowing this is important for analyzing data from other flight test instrumentation.

HTH,

Mark

P.S. Happy Birthday Erv!!

yes..it's called a static data probe...it is trailed out the tail at a good distance to get clean air...in the front of the cone is several holes that take in air......what it measures is static pressure at altitude and is measured with combination of other data to get proper air speed as well as static altitude...ie air pressure....but to make it simple...it measures airspeed as well as static altitude.....

the data is used to verify the airspeed, altitude, and other information that the flight instr. are displaying...


Steve